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Android Date.getTime() adds one day to original Date

So I have a calendar that I need to set a specific date to..

    Date date = TKDateUtils.parseDate("Jun 02, 2016 05:10:30 pm");

    Calendar next = Calendar.getInstance();
    next.setTime(date);

and I log them here to see the output:

    Log.i("MainActivity", date.toString());
    Log.i("MainActivity", date.getTime() + "");

Output:

    06-02 20:21:29.245 1915-1915/com.cyscorpions.timekeeper I/MainActivity: Thu Jun 02 17:10:30 EDT 2016
    06-02 20:21:29.245 1915-1915/com.cyscorpions.timekeeper I/MainActivity: 1464901830000

So I convert the getTime from millis to Date and this is the output:

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So the Date is set to June 2, 2016 17:10:30 but the getTime() is set to the exact day after that date. Am I doing something wrong here?

Here is how I parse the date:

public static Date parseDate(@NonNull String dateString) {
    try {
        mDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy h:mm:ss a");
        return mDateFormat.parse(dateString);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return null;
}
Solution

  • The problem was on Genymotion's TimeZone all along. It is set to a different timezone from my location.